Post-game notes

* The Rangers defeated the Maple Leafs, 2-1, tonight at Air Canada Centre, tallying two goals in a 61-second span of the first period to snap a three-game winless streak. The Blueshirts improved to 2-2-1 (five pts) overall, including a 2-1-0 mark on the road.
* Goaltender Martin Biron stopped 24 of 25 shots while making his Rangers debut, after dressing as Henrik Lundqvist’s backup in each of the first four games of the season. Biron turned aside each of his first 21 shots faced through the game’s opening 51:04.
* Ruslan Fedotenko opened the game’s scoring with his first goal as a Ranger at 16:11 of the first period, and registered a game-high, five shots.
* Artem Anisimov notched a goal, his second of the season, just 61 seconds after Fedotenko’s opening goal, and registered three shots and three hits in 16:01 of ice time.
* Defenseman Michal Rozsival tallied the primary assist on Anisimov’s game-winner at 17:12 of the first period. He also registered five blocked shots and three hits in 24:00 of ice time.
* Ryan Callahan also assisted on the game winning goal, and is now one point shy of 100. Callahan led all skaters with four hits, and recorded four shots and two blocked shots in 21:42 of ice time.
* Rookie Derek Stepan registered the only assist on Fedotenko’s first period goal and logged 17:26 of ice time. Stepan has now recorded an assist in each of the last two games.
* The Blueshirts blocked 30 shots in the contest with 14 of the Rangers’ 18 skaters recording at least one blocked shot led by Michael Del Zotto’s game-high, seven blocked shots. Del Zotto also registered three shots and three hits in 25:47 of ice time.
* Dan Girardi blocked six shots, registered three shots and three hits, and led all skaters with 26:25 of ice time.
* The Rangers’ practice schedule for tomorrow, October 22, is 11:00 a.m. at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto.
* New York will return to action on Saturday, October 23, when they will travel to Boston to face-off against their Original Six rival, the Bruins, at TD Garden (7:00 p.m.) to begin their first of 18 back-to-back sets on the season. The game will be broadcast live on MSG Network and can be heard on 970 The Apple.

I’ll try Mama but in a few weeks my Thursdays as well as my Mondays will be hit or miss as my mens league hockey starts up. I play on mostly Mondays from November – April, but also plan on playing more Thurs nights as well this year.

Oh, this is the worst-looking hat I ever saw. What, when you buy a hat like this I bet you get a free bowl of soup, huh?
[looks at Judge Smails, who’s wearing the same hat]
Oh, it looks good on you though.

NC, since I only live 2 hours away, I’ve kinda adopted the Preds as my team to watch other than my beloved Rangers. I get to watch them on a TV screen frequently, and appreciate the effort they put forth, Shea Weber is a beast, and their TV announcers are a hoot.

I think the only Eastern team I’d not be disgusted by their winning *a* Cup would probably be the Caps because I have a really great friend who is a huge, lifelong, die hard Caps fan, and I’d like him to experience the thrill of a championship.

Oh this young man has had a very trying rookie season, with the litigation, the notoriety, his subsequent deportation to Canada and that country’s refusal to accept him, well, I guess that’s more than most 21-year-olds can handle… Ogie Ogilthorpe!

Linda/orr
It doesn’t have to be him, just someone that plays that style!

Biron looked very good….did gilly play in the 3rd??…..rozy played better (not saying much)……Boogie rattled orr with that one shot and definitely landed more punches, but orr got the take down (I think orr knew he was in trouble and take down was his best way out) so draw……..avery and dubi both took bad slashing penalties….prust is invaluable….avery had another very good game despite the slashing penalty….if we could just hit the net…….disappointed in the chippyness factor…….dubi, for a bigger player, is kind of a wuss. no edge to his game when there should be (like nose to nose with armstrong in the crease and he backs down of course)…..I think gilroy should be traded before he loses all confidence (I ask again, did he play in the 3rd??)

I just saw some new nudie pics of Miranda Kerr, that reminded me how much of a babe that Aussie is. Legolas knocked her up. Damn him, he should be lingering in Lothlórien with his own kind instead of messing around with our kind!

3 things I take from the game:
1. Brandon Prust is the prototypical 21st century “enforcer.” You HAVE to be able to play in today’s NHL. Give us one more Prust, and one less Boogaard.
2. Keeping Stepan-Avery-Feds & AA-Duby-Cally lines is crucial going forward. The chemistry is there.
3. We have one hell of a backup goalie in Hank.

Hockeyfightsdotcom has a video of the orr-Boogy fight. Most voted Boogy the winner with Orr yanking him down to save himself. In hindsight, it was a pretty good fight, but again, I have to say that Boogy is a dinosaur in the new NHL.

Boogy’s gonna have to learn to skate to play the game. Maybe he should see that coach Boyle was seeing in the off season. LOL @ the legolas mention. Did I mention how much I hate Jersey shore today? If not, -clears throat- I BYFUGLIEN HATE JERSEY BYFUGLIEN SHORE!!!!!!!!!!

I disagree with you who fault Boogard for inadequacy. He landed about 4-p5 really good rocking shots directly on Orr,s phiz, and you could see the desperation in Orr’s eyes when he finally had to grab Boogard and wrestle him to the ice. You could also see the contempt in Boogard’s face as he skated unmarked to the box. You folks are way too critical. The guy is not the second coming of Brian Boitano, but he’s not the collossus of Rhodes either. He’ll do the job they signed him for. Leave him be.

Isn;t it remarkable how having his forwards plunk a few goals increase a goaltenders proficiency?

I really like the way Biron plays the position. He stands and faces the shooters and he uses whatever technique is appropriate for the situation. He will use a butterfly when necessary…but he’s not wedded to the tactic like Lundqvist is. He is also much quicker than I thought he was.

If that had been LAQ in the nets, he’s have been on his knees for most of those shots, and for most of the game. I just do not see this adoration for LQ as to his technique. He seems to have captured the NY mystique be becoming a folk hero. Since about the middle of last season to the present time, hehas shown himself to be very very ordinary. ( Which by the way, he always was when he came from Europe..he was not the stellar figure he became over here.)

Iwas amazed at the vigor and ferocity that Roszival played with last night. I have always said that he can play this game….but that he just didn’t. He hopefully has embarked on a new out look that l
hope will enhance his stature, and make him useful, instead of a waste of time.

What truly opened my eyes was the excellent defense played by Sauer! This guy is a very good defenseman. And what can you say about Callahan? Lord that smallish body encloses a heart of steel.

All in all..a fine courage building performance that we can hope lingers on to the Bruin’s game.

Haha… lq is the man, theres a reason Tsn ranked him nhl’s second vest goalie.
Boogie will not play out his whole contract, he is inept at his overall duty of being a forward which is a significant problem when only 1 other nhl player will fight him.